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Receptionist / Administration Assistant – Metalcentre Coopers Plains – Brisbane QLD
Joining the team at our Coopers Plains site, you will report directly to the State Manager and primarily be responsible for professional presentation of…
Reception / Administration – Brisbane QLD
Reporting to the State Manager, you will be working in a small, cohesive administration team – being responsible for the front office of the business. Your…
Sheaffe St, Cloncurry, February 1966
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Cloncurry River was named after Lady Elizabeth Cloncurry, cousin of explorer Robert O’Hara Burke. Roger Sheaffe established the first pastoral run in the Cloncurry district. Cloncurry was proclaimed a town in 1884.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436318, Photographic material
Story Bridge, Brisbane, October 1966
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Taken from the north end looking towards Brisbane City.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436317, Photographic material
Premier Frank Nicklin meeting President Lyndon B. Johnson, Brisbane Airport, 22 October 1966
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
President Lyndon B. Johnson visited Brisbane and Townsville on 22-23 October 1966. On the right is Prime Minister Harold Holt.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436317, Photographic material
Gifts for President Lyndon B. Johnson, 22 October 1966
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
President Lyndon B. Johnson was presented with an Australian stockman’s whip, spurs and bridle. The bridge carries the Queensland badge.
The card reads:
Presented to Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the Unites States of America, by the Government and People of Queensland, Australia on the occasion of his visit, 22nd-23rd October 1966.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436317, Photographic material
Ansett-ANA helicopter, Hayman Island, c 1966
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Ansett operated helicopters between Proserpine and Hayman Island from 1965 to 1984. This Sikorsky S-61N VH-BRI operated the service in 1965-1968 and 1978-1984, operating the final revenue service from Hayman Island to Proserpine on 21 July 1984.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436317, Photographic material
Sir William Glasgow Memorial, Brisbane, November 1965
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
From the Queensland Heritage Register.
The Sir William Glasgow Memorial was designed by Queensland sculptor Daphne Mayo and completed in 1964. It is in the form of a naturalistic bronze figure of Sir William, dressed in Australian Light Horse uniform and set on a granite plinth.
Thomas William Glasgow was born at Blackmount, near Tiaro, Queensland in 1876. He was educated at One Mile State School in Gympie and at Maryborough Grammar School. After leaving school he initially worked as a clerk in the office of a mining company, then as a bank clerk in Gympie. He joined the Wide Bay Regiment, Queensland Mounted Infantry, while still in his teens. In 1897 he was one of 20 chosen to represent Queensland at Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London. He served in the Boer War as a Lieutenant in the 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry Contingent, when he
Coal train, Calliope River, Gladstone, c 1966
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The 1270 class locomotives were built for the Queensland Railways by English Electric at Rocklea between 1964 and 1966.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436317, Photographic material